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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

Barry Humphries

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Body Bother Hair Men Some Women
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.
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Art Past Thinking
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Harbor Nature Pearls
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Destiny Satire School Someone World
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
I’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
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Desire Husbands Women
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
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Art Past Point Seductive Song
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

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